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The Welles Fendrich family continues to thrive in the Princeton, N.J., area and the Northeast. Daughter Anne, a Smith College junior economics major, is spending this year as an exchange student at Dartmouth, with the winter trimester at the prestigious Sullivan and Cromwell law firm in N.Y.C. Welles has formed a new consulting group, Puritan Growth Management, Inc., specializing in marketing, technology support, and business development, while wife Bobbie has entered the business world with a prominent local real estate firm. Son Chuck '75 and family live nearby, soon to be joined in the area by daughter Kathleen and her family from Chicago. Daughter Patricia and family are now in Cleveland, having moved recently from Atlanta. With two grandsons and four granddaughters, two new business experiences, and a college student still somewhat in the nest, this looks like an extremely busy and exciting 1987 for the Fendrichs!

Monk Martin mentions seeing Jim VonRohr in Keystone, Colo., where Jim was one of the finalists in the NASTAR national championships, just missing the bronze medal!

Nip Lewis appears to have had an ideal retirement assignment last summer rating golf courses for the New Hampshire Golf Association. He's also doing a little engineering consulting for an alarm company during the winter.

Harold and Mary Alice Flick are currently wintering in Ft. Myers, Fla., and spending the summers in Joe Paterno land at State College, Pa., where two of their married children live.

From Louisville, Ky., Emery Lewis reports his retirement last July as executive vice president of McCann-Erikson, IncEm is now chairman of a newly formed marketing company, Chateau Creeks, Inc.

The Sandy Treats are moving from Toronto to Vail, Colo., building their dream home near the wonderful skiing there. Sandy states that the house sits in a valley at 8,000-feet, surrounded by snowcapped peaks. He also mentions skiing with Brooks '57 and Ann Dodge recently.

Jim Boyes Jr., M.D., tells us that he is currently retired from hand surgery, enjoying sailing inland waters, and is now a student of architecture at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His home address is 843 Rama Road, Charlotte, NC 28211.

Luminescent Systems, Inc., a privatelyheld company founded in 1979 by current president Ed Sheu, has been bought out by Loctite Corporation of Newington, Conn. This "friendly takeover" will permit Loctite to capitalize on Luminescent's expertise in the aircraft instrument lighting field, while continuing its own electroluminescent prominence in the automotive industry. Ed will continue as executive of the merged companies, with LSI being run as a separate subsidiary of Loctite.

John Wolfe's late November letter gave the sad news of the death of his wife, Alice, in July, 1986. Fortunately, he reports that he is starting to get out and about again, and that the Sales and Marketing Executive Society of Houston, which he runs, is doing very well after a near demise in 1983. John is still doing his sales talks and seminars around the U.S. and abroad and last year was included by Quote Magazine of Atlanta in its list of "Ten Most Quotable Speakers of the Year," in the company of such people as President Reagan, Paul Harvey, Norman Vincent Peale, and Henry Kissinger!

Mary and I enjoyed a wonderful weekend visit with former dean of the College Ralph Manuel '56 and his gracious wife, Sally, on the occasion of the SMU-Notre Dame game last November. Ralph is superintendent of Culver Academy and has lost none of his great love for Dartmouth and the Upper Vally area. The Manuels plan to return each summer to their Goose Pond cottage, with Ralph making at least one trip for some trout fishing in the College Grant in far nothern New Hampshire.

Congratulations to Thad Bell on receiving the David Bushnell Award, presented by the Undersea Warfare Systems Division of the American Defense Preparedness Assocation. Thad, a senior scientist with Vitro Corporation who retired in 1985 after many years with the Naval Underwater Systems Center, received the Bushnell Award for his "outstanding technical contributions in the defense preparedness of the United States in the field of undersea warfare." He states that his honor gives him the feeling that he has been able to repay the navy for subsidizing three-fourths of his college education as a V-12 student during World War 11.

Word has been received of the unexp ected death due to heart failure of BillBowers at his home in Jaffrey, N.H. He is survived by his wife, Carroll, her four children, and three daughters from a prior marriage.

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